What were Alexander Hamilton's and Thomas Jefferson's view on the proper economic path for the future of the United States?
What role did these two opposing philosophies play in the relocation of the capital of the United States from New York City to Washington, D.C.?
How does the debate over the relocation of the captial and the Compromise of 1790 foreshadow the growing sectional crisis of the nineteenth century, culminating in the fighting of the American Civil War?
The Compromise of 1790:
"The Compromise of 1790," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 524-545. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1919703
The Compromise of 1790:
"The Compromise of 1790," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 524-545.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1919703
George Washington University: "The Compromise of 1790."
http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/p14/p14_3.html
Alexander Hamilton versus Thomas Jefferson:
Primary Documents:
Alexander Hamilton, "Report on Manufactures," (1791).
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Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia," (1785).
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Secondary Documents:
Jefferson versus Hamilton: Confrontations that Shaped a Nation, Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. (Boston, Bedford/St. Martin, 2000).
http://books.google.com/books?id=tQZn3VlFSyAC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Compromise+of+1790&source=web&ots=BvViBT5mu-&sig=m_8_lbyuEBRWiOKk6zLCfSmjjSU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPP1,M1
Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
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